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The '''Terrorist Finance Tracking Program''' is a [[United States government]] program to access the SWIFT transaction database, revealed by ''[[The New York Times]]'' in June 2006. It is part of the [[George W. Bush administration|Bush administration]]'s "[[Global War on Terrorism]]". Based in [[Belgium]], SWIFT ([[Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication]]) establish common standards for financ(contracted; show full)arliamentary committee (''Comité I''), that deals with the workings of the [[Belgian State Security Service]] reported that SWIFT was indeed in violation with Belgian and European privacy laws.<ref>{{cite news|title=Belgian PM: Data Transfer Broke Rules|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092800585.html|publisher=[[Washington Post]]|date=[[2005-09-28]]}}</ref> The New York branch of the Dutch [[Rabobank]] is said to deliver information o
fn its European customers to the U.S. government, in contempt of European privacy laws. The Dutch Data Protection Authority claims that Dutch banks could face monetary fines if they hand over data ofn their customers to the American government.<ref>{{nl icon}}{{cite news|title=Bank wacht boete bij zwijgen over informeren VS|url=http://www.nrc.nl/economie/article654508.ece/Bank_wacht_boete_bij_zwijgen_over_informeren_VS|publisher=[[NRC Handelsblad]]|date=[[2007-03-10]]}}</ref>

==Controversy regarding ''The New York Times''' decision to publish==

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[[Category:Counter-terrorism]]
[[Category:Anti-terrorism policy of the United States]]
[[Category:George W. Bush administration controversies]]
[[Category:United States Department of the Treasury]]
[[Category:Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication]]